US surpasses 3 million Covid-19 cases
The United States on Wednesday passed another grim coronavirus milestone with three million confirmed cases, as President Donald Trump downplayed the risks posed by the pandemic and aggressively pushed for schools to reopen.
The coronavirus is surging in a number of southern hotspots including Texas, Florida, Louisiana and Arizona, although it has almost entirely receded from its former epicentre in NY and the north-east.
Johns Hopkins University put the total at 3,009,611, in its real-time tally of confirmed Covid-19 cases.
"At this point, we've tested a lot more than 39 million Us citizens," US Vice President Mike Pence told reporters.
"Among those, more than three million Us citizens have tested great and more than 1.3 million Us citizens have recovered."
Trump embarked on a good morning tweetstorm ahead of a public appointment of his coronavirus activity force, in which he needed students to return to their schools found in fall and lashed out in his own top wellbeing agency.
"In Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and several other countries, SCHOOLS Are actually OPEN WITH NO PROBLEMS," he said.
"The Dems think it might be harmful to them politically if U.S. schools open prior to the November Election, but is very important to the kids & families. May cut off financing if not open!"
He added that he disagreed with instruction for reopening schools lay out by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and will be "ending up in them!!!"
Sending children back again to school is essential if parents happen to be to return to manufacturing and various other jobs that want their physical presence.
All of the countries mentioned by Trump possess far smaller epidemics compared to the United States, even while Sweden is viewed by many consumer health experts as a good cautionary tale after shunning lockdowns and experiencing a higher death rate.
America is by much the hardest-hit country in the world, with an increase of than 130,000 deaths - even as the fatality rate features fallen from highs seen during the late spring peak.
In April and could, as many as 3,000 people were dying every day, while for the past few days it's been around 600.
Experts see several known reasons for this fall.
These include much larger levels of assessment picking right up more mild situations, a younger people becoming infected, better solutions - and the lag time taken between infection and loss of life among the sickest individuals.
In conditions of treatments, doctors have discovered that positioning patients with severe difficulty in breathing on their stomachs, referred to as the "prone" position, can ease the burden on their lungs.
They are also using blood thinners preventatively in order to avoid life-threatening clots in the lungs, human brain, and limbs; and employing steroids like dexamethasone to lessen an unusual autoimmune response that ravages the organs.
The anti-viral remdesivir meanwhile has been shown to lessen the duration of hospital stays, but hasn't so far been tested to get a significant impact on mortality.
The US epidemic in addition has become far younger, with the median age for new cases in Florida fluctuating in the mid-30s, for instance.
In the greater Phoenix area, the major centre of the contagion in Arizona, half are beneath the age of 35.
These young persons could in turn continue to infect the elderly or medically vulnerable, which would once again increase the death count.
THE UNITED STATES department of health has embarked on a surge testing campaign in a number of sites in the south in order to better track mild or asymptomatic cases. - AFP
